Medicine-case.



PATENTED DEC. 31, 1907.

J. BRISTOW, JR. MEDICINE GASE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25. 1907.

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JOSEPH BRISTOW, JR; OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS.

MEDICINE-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, 1907.

Application filed February 26. 1907. Serial No. 359,057.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn BRISTOW, J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Medicine-Cases, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to medicine cases and has special reference to cases or cabinets designed for domestic use and adapted to contain bottles andboxes in a compact and convenient manner.

The paramount objects of my invention are to provide a casing'adapted to fit into the angle between two walls, and furnished with a dust excluding door, and a convenient drawer for packages and utensils; to arrange a rotary rack for bottles so that the rear vials can be quickly reached without danger of overturning those adjacent; to design the rack so that each bottle Will have-its individual holder and will be safeguarded against breakage or displacement during the rotatory movement of the rack; to produce a rotary bottle holder that-will be light in weight and yet firm for the support of a number of lilled bottles of various sizes; and to provide means for preventing the centrifugal force from displacing the contents of the holders.

Further objects are to furnish a rotary device having improved features such as adjustability of the holding devices to suit containers of different sizes,' sensitive bearings for the rotary element and a dust excludingflcover for the ball bearings.

l accomplish the above and other minor objects by means of the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved medicine cabinet; Fig. 2 is a similar view withthe door opened to disclose the interior; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary view, partly in section, of the rotary rack.

Referring to the drawing in detail the numeral 5 indicates the top and bottom pieces, (3 a horizontal partition and 7 the backing of a cabinet designed to fit into a corner of a room. For this purpose the top and bottom boards as well as the partition are cut. in the form of a right angled triangle the acute angles being truncated to give a better efiect and the intervals closed by vertical casing strips 8, 8*, upon each side. The partition 6 divides the interior of the cabinet into two compartments 9, 10, and is extended forward to the front 'of the case and forms a parting strip between a door 11 for the upper compartment and a drawer 12, which occupies the lower compartment. The said door 11 is preferably composed of a frame 13 in which is mounted a mirror 14 in lieu of a panel and securely held in place by a back board 15. and a catch or look 17. The drawer is furnished with any convenient pull or knob 18, and the box portion of said drawer is made of a suitable triangular shape to properly fit the com artment 10.

T e upper compartment 9 is fitted with a series of shelves 19 disposed in duplicate at each side and at various heights. These shelves serve to increase the capacity of the case and at the same time act as braces for the structure.

In the center of the upper compartment is placed: a revolving bottle holder orrack composed of a central shaft 20, upon which are slidably mounted a plurality of concave shelves or disks 21. The shaft 20 is tubular and is supported upon a foot plate 22 secured to the uppersurface of the partition. This plate is provided with an annular ball race 23 furnished with hardened steel balls 24 upon which the lower end of said tubular shaft rests. The upper end of the shaft is received in a flat plate 25 screwed to the under surface -of the top board 5 forming a bearing for that end. Near the lower end of this shaft is placed a flexible washer 26 which is stretched upon thesh'aft when assembled by having its hole slightly less in size than the shaft diameter thus causing it to assume an inverted cup form and furnishing a protective covering to the ball race 23 to exclude dust.

Upon the shaft are arranged a series of movable collars 27 having flanges 28 and adjustably secured in place by set screws 29. Upon the up er surfaces of the flanges 28 are mounted dis s 30 of thin metal their outer margins being turned upward and fastened to the flanges by rivets 30. These disks are furnished with peripheral slots 31 which are open at their outer ends and have their inner ends 32 slightly narrower. Within their margins the disks are provided with key hole slots 38, the outer ends being narrower than the inner and the sides of the slots are formed with vertical flanges '34 the inner ends of The door has the usual hinges 16' which are higher than'the outer. The func To remove any tion of the marginal and key hole slots is to permit the insertion of the necks of the bottles, the under surface of the lip 35 of the bottle 36 being enga ed by the margins of the slot as shown in ig. 4.. The upturned mar ins or flanges 34 incline downwardly towards the outer extremities of the slots and prevent the bottles from working towards the wide end of the slots. The upturned margin of the disks has the same effect to revent the bottles from bein dislodged rom the outer slots by the centrifu al force, when the rack is rotated, and in a dition is a source of strength for the disk which thus may be made of lighter material than would be advisable were the plate made with a plane surface.

It will be understood that each slot is intended to hold a sin le bottle although they may be made of su cient length to accommodate a number at once. The necks of the vials are inserted in the larger ends of the key-hole slots and slipped alon until a nar-, rower art of the slot is .reac ed. Where they Wlll be supported by. their necks alone. vial it is only necessary to rotate the rac by pushing with the finger upon the edge of one of the disks and thus rotating the rack until the required bottle is brought to the front. The disks being movable upon the central stem or shaft, they may be ad usted to suit various sizes of bottles,

and the number of these disks may be varied substantially as descrl ed.

2. In a bottle holding device, rotatable disks and means for supporting said disks, each of said disks having peripheral and radial openings formed ther'em, the margins of the radial openings being inclined toward the outer edge of the disk, and the outer edge of the disk being curved upwardly. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH BRISTOW, JR. Witnesses:

WALTER F. HUNTER, FRANK A. WEBBER. 

